Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 2 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 3 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 4 | Owner Dave Vernon has lately replaced it with a rare late-sixties single-tailed Mooney M-10 Cadet version ( right ) which he flew solo from Los Angeles to Miami . |
| 5 | It has already reduced it from a peak of 36,000 to around 26,000 . |
| 6 | The PSA has always done it in the past . |
| 7 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 8 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 9 | And he has now made it to the finals of our fun competition to find the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside after being nominated by step-daughter Christine Johnson and wife , Margaret . |
| 10 | This retailer has now taken it off the shelves whilst Gloucestershire 's Trading Standards Department investigates . |
| 11 | She said , well I , I do n't know what to do , she said , I have n't read , you know , she had n't read the election , she had n't had time to read the election addresses , and she 's not really interested in ac actually so she has n't watched it on the television . |
| 12 | Dan Cruickshank bought a nightmare on Elder Street ten years ago an has lovingly restored it to a dream . |
| 13 | The plonker does n't actually know how to operate it at the moment but he will once he 's passed his night school exams . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 15 | But she did n't know where to find it in the rows of medical books in the nursing school library . |
| 16 | I had no idea when we might be going to Dili , so I was unable to time my campaign , to know when to bring it to a climax , to know when I could afford to cool things down , to be nice to her , for I did n't want to be thrown out of the house there and then , did I ? |
| 17 | Although AEI uses Business 400 in many countries , including Hong Kong , Canada , the Netherlands , Belgium and France , it has yet to install it in the UK . |
| 18 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 19 | The Labour party has never chosen it as a subject . |
| 20 | it 'll only be until I should think erm next Tuesday will be the last batch , cos we 've got these bank holidays fortunately in the , in the way where I T still work but we do n't and so they 're gon na fix , they 'll carry on fixing it over the weekend . |
| 21 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 22 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 23 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 24 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 25 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 26 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 27 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 28 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 29 | I say this because if you raise any objections to the contents of the report we may choose not to disclose it to the other side . |
| 30 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |